Recomp / OS & system / PC
ReactOS
Free operating system written from scratch to be binary-compatible with Windows NT drivers and applications.
Clean-room Human-led wip playableFacts
- Original
- Microsoft Windows NT (Server 2003 era) (1993)
- Platform
- PC
- Method
- Clean-room
- Provenance
- Human-led · Volunteer project since 1996 (reactos.org) what this means
- Status
- wip
- Licence
- GPL-2.0
- Team
- ReactOS Project
- Started
- 1996
- Runs on
- x86, x86-64
- Needs the original
- No
How to get it legally
Software in the browser. GPL-2.0; ReactOS image hosted by v86 (BSD-2-Clause)
This project was rebuilt clean-room by ReactOS Project. Facts last checked 2026-10-13.
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